DoubleTwist vs Apple

Well someone has finally done it. A firm in San Francisco run by Jon Lech Johansen has successfully cracked the limitations of "fair play" software that stops people from putting itunes music on other digital players. Previously one could burn the music onto a cd and then pout it back onto a computer and put it onto other media players. However this would lead to a diminishing sound quality in the music. This new free software allows users to " share both user-generated and professionally created music, photos and video clips between computers, mobiles and game consoles." I believe that this is very big because part of what people are looking for today is being able to have their information and media library being able to be mobile. Although the ipod offers a good medium it stifles choice on the part of the consumer. If you want an mps player that is cheaper or has some different less mainstream features you now can use it and continue to get your music from Itunes. THe article does not think that apple will say anything about the new software but i wouldnt put it past them to put out a new patch that would somehow block this software much like they did to ourtunes and mytunes redux.